News from Aberdeen Sinfonietta
All the latest updates from our concerts and events
14.05.19
ABERDEEN SINFONIETTA Spring Concert May 2019
05.12.18
Review: Aberdeen Sinfonietta at High Church, Hilton Saturday 17th Nov 2018
30.05.18
REVIEW: ABERDEEN SINFONIETTA at CAIRD HALL, DUNDEE 20th May 2018
21.05.18
REVIEW: ABERDEEN SINFONIETTA at HIGH CHURCH, HILTON - 19th MAY 2018
28.02.18
REVIEW: Aberdeen Sinfonietta String Ensemble at Phoenix Hall, Sunday 25th Feb 2018
04.12.17
REVIEW: Aberdeen Bach Choir, Christmas Concert, St Machar’s Cathedral Sunday 3rd December 2017
29.11.17
04.07.17
REVIEW: ABERDEEN SINFONIETTA AT CAIRD HALL, DUNDEE 28th MAY 2017
04.07.17
REVIEW: ABERDEEN SINFONIETTA, 27th MAY 2017 – HIGH CHURCH, HILTON
29.11.16
REVIEW: ABERDEEN SINFONIETTA, 27 NOVEMBER 2016 - HIGH CHURCH, HILTON
GARRY WALKER: Conductor
ANNA-LIISA BEZRODNY: Guest Violin Soloist
Review by Alan Cooper
Sunday afternoon’s concert was the second of two performances featuring the music of Mozart and Beethoven. With the Music Hall currently out of commission it was necessary to provide two opportunities to allow audiences to enjoy what was bound to be a very popular programme and High Church, Hilton was packed to capacity for the second performance on Sunday.
03.10.16
ABERDEEN SINFONIETTA ON THE MOVE!
22.02.16
REVIEW: ABERDEEN SINFONIETTA - ABERDEEN MUSIC HALL
Garry Walker - Conductor
Gina McCormack - Violin Soloist
Review by Alan Cooper
The undoubted highlight of Sunday's first class Sinfonietta concert was Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major Op 35 with the amazing Gina McCormack as soloist. Various stories surround the birth of this astonishing work. One legend goes that a player to whom Tchaikovsky offered the work (it could have been Leopold Auer) originally rejected it as "unplayable". Well, Gina McCormack played it - and brilliantly too!
25.05.15
REVIEW: ABERDEEN SINFONIETTA SUMMER CONCERT 2015 - ABERDEEN MUSIC HALL
ROGER B. WILLIAMS: Conductor
JOSEPH LONG: Piano Soloist
Review by Alan Cooper
I was delighted that Aberdeen Sinfonietta had invited two of our most accomplished "local" musicians to take part in their latest Summer Concert. I put the word "local" in inverted commas since Dr Roger Williams is originally from Swansea - but surely his multiple contributions to almost every aspect of musical life throughout the North East over many years entitles him to an honorary citizenship? Roger's association with Aberdeen Sinfonietta both as keyboardist and conductor goes back to the very foundation of the orchestra so it was splendid to welcome him back again as conductor of Sunday's concert.
16.03.15
ABERDEEN SINFONIETTA with HADDO HOUSE CHORAL & OPERATIC SOCIETY - ABERDEEN MUSIC HALL
DAVID JONES: Conductor
AOIFE O'CONNELL: Soprano
IAIN MILNE: Tenor
Review by Alan Cooper
For their May Concert last year, Aberdeen Sinfonietta combined forces with Aberdeen Bach Choir for a performance that included John Rutter's Magnificat. For their March Concert this year, they teamed up with Haddo House Choral & Operatic Society to present an earlier but equally unique and tuneful work, the St. Cecilia Mass by Charles Gounod.